Luna's Howl:
Starting off with Luna, Magnificent Howl has zero of its original flavor and while I didn't expect it to have the original 240% buff I also didn't expect it to be a crappy Momento Mori.
Precision kills before reloading add 1 Magnificent Howl round for each kill and additional precision kills refund 1 Magnificent Howl round. That change is basically a PvE death sentence. This change definitely should've been that it refunded Magnificent Howl rounds on precision hits until a kill was obtained.
The true high point of Mag Howl was being able to focus tanky targets until you missed or defeated them which is now no longer possible even though this perk is now kill activated.
As for the other Luna perks there's no Zen Moment, Drop Mag was left out and there are no interesting or unique perk combos. I might've still been semi interested to see an Explosive Payload and Precision Instrument roll, but why would you guys expect anyone to be excited for this?? Its best roll is Heal Clip and Incandescent but Igneous Hammer already has that locked down. As a 140 Luna's is easily worse than Zaoli's Bane
The Recluse:
I've been swapping back and forth between the original sunset Recluse, the shiny vendor roll, as well as my perfect roll on the reprisal and the new variants feel terrible.
The original is a laser and the new version starts out pulling hard right and then hard left which makes zero sense for a 100 Recoil Direction stated weapon, because the new guy feels like an even 50 Recoil Direction at best. If I ever need to shoot perfect donuts as a mechanic I'll keep it in mind though.
Luna and Recluse were the two weapons I was most excited for but they're also now the two weapons I'm most disappointed by which feels real bad on the whole. Probably wouldn't mind getting their perfect roll in shiny drops, but their drop rates are so abysmal I'm losing my motivation to grind them. Grinding Edge Transit also probably took all the steam I had out of me
Positive end note:
The Mountaintop is crazy fun and while I wasnt excited for either Hung Jury or Edge Transit I have enjoyed using the good rolls I've obtained. Explosive Payload/Kinetic Tremors is a fun combo and I'm looking forward to getting that roll on Midnight Coup
For players:
If you really want to grind a specific shiny weapon do not do the weapon quests to earn the shiny weapon versions they are account wide and the shiny versions will not drop until that quest is complete. I cleared all my quests in one day and that was a mistake
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Imma be real. I don’t care how mid Luna’s howl is, I will never in my life use Zaouli’s bane unless that fix that trash recoil pattern
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You're not going to see how they used to be .... all smoke n mirrors Maybe crafted versions will hit harder .... again at least we got to enjoy the crazy times .... Special guns for me all the same... took effort to earn those originally
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Upvoted because its good feedback and the part where he doesnt even want to grind because of the terrible droprates. But again Bungie remains silent and pretends nothing is happening. And then will now come all the losers and low lifes of the world to this post and fight your complaint with “Well u should be happy” “RNG is RNG”. “My two braincells are super excited about this event u should stop complaining”
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recluse is better compared to all the current void smg option, lunas is the best pve hc if you don't play raids, for pvp recluse is one of the best pvp smg, and lunas is the same
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Edited by Golden: 4/17/2024 5:07:46 AMIs Lunas Howl out?
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Wait Luna's is out? I thought it was just Mountaintop and Midnight. I don't see the room opened in the hall.
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I'm not. In my opinion any single person that thought they'd bring back these weapons as they were was completely fooling themselves AND doesn't pay attention.